On January 26, 2026, MIT Technology Review published (via its Business Lab channel) an episode titled “The power of sound in a virtual world”. The conversation is hosted by MIT Technology Review Insights’ Laurel Ruma and features Erik Vaveris (Vice President of Product Management and Chief Marketing Officer at Shure) and Brian Scholl (Director of…
Synthesia’s $4B Valuation and the New Normal: Letting Employees Cash Out While AI Video Goes Corporate
Synthesia just pulled off a very 2026 move: raising a huge round, nearly doubling its valuation, and simultaneously giving employees a real chance to turn paper wealth into actual, pays-the-mortgage money. If you’ve been watching the generative AI market wobble between “this changes everything” and “please stop emailing me about your AI pivot,” Synthesia’s latest…
When Hobby Accounts Start Talking About ICE: How Creators, Communities, and the Open Web Turn Outrage Into a Network Effect
Some stories are so obviously “political” that you can hear the comment section warming up its “stay in your lane” engines before the first paragraph is done. And then there are stories like this one, where the “lane” turns out to be… basically the entire internet. On January 25, 2026, The Verge published a short,…
Amazon EC2 G7e Is Here: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs Land in the Cloud (and Inference Gets a Big Boost)
AWS has added a new entry to its ever-growing catalog of “please don’t look at the hourly bill” instances: Amazon EC2 G7e. These new GPU instances are now generally available and are built around NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs—hardware that’s clearly designed for a world where AI models eat VRAM for breakfast…
Claude Cowork: How Anthropic Is Turning Claude Into Shared AI Infrastructure (and Why Teams Should Care)
When most people think “AI assistant,” they still picture a glorified autocomplete box with manners: you ask, it answers, you copy-paste, you forget where you put the answer, and then you ask again next week. That workflow has been remarkably popular for something that’s basically the digital equivalent of shouting questions into a canyon. Anthropic…
Chatbots for Health Are Here. So Are the AI Regulation Knife Fights.
On January 23, 2026, MIT Technology Review’s “The Download” put two stories side-by-side that, frankly, deserve to be in the same room: the rapid rise of health chatbots and the escalating U.S. political brawl over who gets to regulate AI. The item was published by MIT Technology Review (the original creator), and the specific “The…
Kubernetes AI Conformance: Why AI Infrastructure Is Finally Getting a Standard (and Why That’s a Big Deal)
For years, “AI infrastructure” has been an oddly specific form of chaos: expensive GPUs duct-taped to general-purpose clusters, YAML sprinkled with hopeful comments, and a shadowy layer of vendor-specific magic that only one engineer understands (and they’re currently “between opportunities”). On November 11, 2025, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta, the Cloud Native…
Loch Capsule Countertop Dishwasher: The Tiny, Fast Dishwasher That Also “Sanitizes” Gadgets (and What That Really Means)
Countertop dishwashers have always lived in a weird corner of consumer tech: part appliance, part lifestyle accessory, and part “please don’t look under my sink.” They tend to be either too bulky for small counters or too small to feel worth the hassle. Every few years a new model shows up promising to fix the…
Chromebooks, Classrooms, and Customer Loyalty: What Google’s Internal ‘Onboarding Kids’ Deck Reveals About the Business of Education Tech
When schools buy laptops, they’re not just buying hardware. They’re buying an operating system, an identity provider, a default browser, an app ecosystem, a classroom management stack, and—if the vendor’s internal slide decks are to be believed—a long-term relationship that can outlive the student’s graduation gown by several decades. That’s the uncomfortable subtext behind a…
Amazon EC2 G7e Goes GA: What AWS’s New Blackwell-Powered GPU Instances Mean for GenAI Inference, Spatial Computing, and “Please Don’t Page Me at 3AM” Operations
AWS just did that thing it’s very good at: quietly turning a previously painful GPU problem into a menu of instance sizes you can click in the console. On January 20, 2026, Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7e instances, a new GPU instance family accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO…